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1 Barbel, 7 Chub, 3 Other

4 Barbel, 6 Chub

A first time reccie here for me today . Set in a stunning valley and time actually seemed to slow down here ! Beyond peaceful and hot in the sunshine today! 0.47m on the Byton gauge and seemed to be pushing through the pacier sections at a fair old lick and the colour was enough for me to be not too adventurous with the wading in any steep sided gravel pools! Same in the pacy water really. A few bits of fly around but not much moving on top but stuck with the dry, such a nice day for it.

Went downstream to start and is pretty much socked in down there with herbage/trees but enough places to squeeze in and fish ok. Seemed to me though that its going the way of some of the wild streams sadly with no foliage management and good fishing opportunities being lost. Had a walk above the bridge in the evening up the r/hand bank but the left hand bank looked to have better access on the whole! The bendy bits just above the bridge looked deep and very interesting indeed ! Nice pace on them too today.

Looking forward to running a deep nymph or stick float through them sometime this winter. Lots of small olive nymphs/stone clingers and loads of shrimp on the rocks up in the fast water at the weir. The local kingfisher was putting on some great close up flybys today and dippers busy busy as ever.

Couldn't find the grayling today, too busy just enjoying the peace and good weather I guess!

3 Trout

3 Grayling

5 Trout

Another fun day on the Dee. River high but certainly fishable, care needed when wading as water pushing through at a fair pace. Water clarity pretty good given the height.

Caught a small grayling with first cast, and then shortly thereafter, caught a big 'un on a nymph - so excited that I managed to lose the fish from the net after taking the hook out while I was thinking "must get a photo of this one"!

Always like to try a dry fly and that proved a fun move, caught 5 more good sized grayling on a dry on the 3 stretches I fished.

Looking forward to fun trips across the winter.

7 Grayling

A warm start to the day the res was mirror calm not a ripple anywhere. A trout first cast on worm lifted off bottom, then not a bite for 2 hours. Sun was quite hot then a slight breeze put some nice ripple on the res, fish 2 3 4 and 5 all caught within a 45 min spell 3 on worm fished around 10 yards out. Trout number 5 caught on gold Abu dropped 12 grams spinner.
Trout number 6 on a bubble float around 30 yards out with about a 6 foot tail hook length on worm.
Trout 7 the last of the day was back on the same spinner as Trout number 5. Packed up around 2 as the sun was getting a bit too hot.
A BIG PROBLEM AT THE RES IS THE AMOUNT OF DISCARDED FISHING LINE LEFT ON THE BANK.
" PLEASE EVERYONE TAKE YOUR OLD LINE AND LITTER HOME WITH YOU".

7 Trout

nothing again beginning to think there are no salmon left in this river

2 Trout

river runnig nicelky and weather hot and sunny. barbel came out on pellet feeder and some chub on meat.

12 Barbel, 16 Chub